The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31
THE LONDON EXHIBITION.
The Wonders of Indian Art-Artisans at
Work-Ckylon and South Africa.

INC NoHcerS OF 1no1au ArV-ArtlSans AZ
Work-Csyion and South Africa.
The London season is being prolonged
This year for several reasons, and the
colonial and Indian exhibition has intro
1uced new feature to the social whirl.
There are special entertainments every
where for the colonial and Indian people,
oanquets, balls, flower shows, garden
parties, fetes at the Crystal Palace and
at every other place. Theexhibition is
vast endless labyrinth of things strange
and interesting, and one revels in Indian
art products particularlarly. The same
buildings at South Kensington hold it as
leld the fisheries, health and inventions
exhibitions in preceding seasons, and
each colony has tried to outdo all this
others III making great show for itself.
The Indian courts are dreams of carved
and inlaid screens lining the long gal
eries for hundreds and hundreds of
feet, with Indian carpets and draperics
covering the upper walls, trophies OF
indian arms over every doorway, and
she roof all a-futter with flags and BAN
3ers.
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are the glass cases containing jewelry,
silks, muslins, and embroidered stufls
oy the half-mile, and one tears himself
away from one case TO so to another
illed with even more distracting things.
There are embroideries in gold and colors
10 make one sig gh with envy, and tissues
Of gold thread embroidered with pearls
and beetles wings until they surpass all
one's imaginings of East Indian gor-
geousness. Cashmere shawls and Chud-
| dah shawls, chuddahs SO fine and silky
that the mythical feat of drawing them
through a ring can be done in plain sight,
and chuddahs of infinite shades of soft,
dull blues and reds and grays. bewilder
one in their various presentation. The
Benares brassware, the Bombay carved
woods and case after case of fretted sill
yer hold one before them, and as for
gold and silver and jeweled ornaments
| It would seem as if all India had emptied
such treasures into the exhibition. The
| Dacca muslins. the famous fabrics known
there as dew of the evening" and
woven air" from their fineness and
transparency, are shown, each yard
worth more than tissue of gold thread
Of the same width.
Better than all these things in cases is
the Indian palace in one of the open
courts, where the pink and white stone
work of the city of Jenpore is repeated
in model palace, whose first courtyard
is filled with the shops of native artisans
at work, weaving carpets, embroidering
shawls, cutting stone to the tineness of
lace-work, molding clay on the primi-
tive potter's wheel and beating out gold
and silver ornaments. This Scindiah
palace contains two rooms sacred to the
use of the prince of Wales from which
the public is roped out, but into which
one can at least look and see the domed
and softly shaded room with its beauti-
full walls, its divans and rugs and cen
trail basin of overlooking water that re-
fleets as mirror the arches and the silk
canopied ceiling.
The Ceylon division begins with copy
of the gateway and parts of the Buddhis
Temple of the Sacred Tooth of Handy
and Gantama and Buddhist emblems ar,
prominent in all the decorations of tn
Ceylon gallery. There is a large case o
gems in this division, over which on,
hangs enraptured. In it are cats eye
as large as the end of your thumb, an'
ticketed at $4,000 for one such trifie
and rubies and sapphires of size an'
color never seen in other exhibitions
Rubies in the rough, and sapphires o
every other shade beside blue; duh as
tral sapphires that show a five-pointe'
star of white light when held at a certain
angle; alexandrites that are alternatel.
green and red, and softly shining moon
, stones dazzle the eye in the range of tina
, one case of Ceylon treasures, and silve
, and gold and pearls, lace and tortoise
, shell, make a circle of attractions atoun
the gems. .---"Rubanah" in Globe Demo
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